Twin Sis at Johnny Brenda's (Click any photo to enlarge)The scent of seduction hung limp in the air Sunday night at Johnny Brenda's, as a nearly sold-out crowd gathered to catch Brooklyn's Twin Sister -- a band billed on JB's website as "music you could feel comfortable cheating on someone to."
And while we may never know the number of adulteries actually committed that night on the dance floor -- there is no questioning that the crowd stood enchanted, as the five piece sung and slow-grooved its way through an hour plus of sultry, ethereal pop.
And while we may never know the number of adulteries actually committed that night on the dance floor -- there is no questioning that the crowd stood enchanted, as the five piece sung and slow-grooved its way through an hour plus of sultry, ethereal pop.
Front woman Andrea EstellaTwin Sister's debut full length, In Heaven, is a scintillating blend of spacey dream pop and sly, disco-infused grooves, from the airy, meandering "Kimmi in a Rice Field" to the catchy, funky "Bad Street." Live, these same songs felt denser and teeming with life, as the band pounded out solid bass grooves, then swaddled them in layers of keys and vocals. Especially bewitching was front woman Andrea Estella, whose tiny frame looked smaller swallowed by an oversized blazer, and who pursed her lips and cooed into the mic like a sexy, intoxicated wood nymph.
In 70 minutes, the band played most of the songs off Heaven, plus early hit "All Around and Away We Go," and 2 new ones -- the former (listed on the set list as "Divide Me" [as far as I could tell]) a delicate arrangement of arpeggios and boy/girl harmonies, and the latter ("Tower of Two") a dance-y rager. They closed with an extended version of "The Other Side of Your Face," then broke shortly, returning with an encore performance of "Lady Daydream," the crowd swaying and dancing along. Not bad for a snowy Sunday night!
Brooklyn up-and-comers Ava Luna opened the show with their unique blend of vintage-inspired, doo wop-tinged electro-disco-funk, winning the crowd with front man's Carlos Hernandez's impassioned falsetto, and big, juicy bass licks, especially on tunes like exuberant closer "Past the Barbary." The set was enough to convince me to scoop up their Services EP -- I'm curious to see what's next for these guys!
Ava Luna.
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